SpiritWorld: Helldorado
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
79/100 across eight reviews: the Angelenos push their industrial noise toward apocalyptic pop.
82/100 across ten reviews: the Texan quartet blow in a gust of raging, clever punk.
82/100 across ten reviews: the meeting of Sumac's tectonic sludge and Moor Mother's poetry.
79/100 across sixteen reviews: the Britons with the impossible name impose their colossal stoner-noise.
83/100: the Californian melodic-hardcore veterans hit true and hard.
79/100: the Tennessee deathcore kings reconnect with pure brutality.
The opening shot: a telluric, savage sludge, already of rare power.
Bane arrives with a debut that never fakes it.
The step up: heavier, finer, the band finds its soft/violent dynamic.
Prayers Upon Deaf Ears carves Arkangel into H8000 legend.
The ascent: a labyrinthine quest-record, denser and wilder.
83/100: the Swiss tech-thrash veterans return after decades, and hit hard.
The black album: denser, more tormented, a wrongly unloved record.
79/100: the English "caveman battle doom" crew flatten everything in their path.
The turn: Mastodon drop the concepts for the song, and gain clarity.
83/100: the Americans confirm their place in the elite of melodic, violent metalcore.
81/100: the heaviest deathcore veterans keep digging their nihilistic furrow.
81/100: the English trio confirm their mathcore, as technical as it is emotional.
Grief writ large: a dark, sprawling double album, a testament to loss.
80/100: the American progressive-metalcore act hold their high technical level.
83/100: the electronicore pioneers deliver an acclaimed return.
80/100: the rising Britons blend atmospheric post-hardcore and metalcore intensity.
80/100: the Belgians' ritual doom summons ancient Mesopotamia in sonic trance.
83/100: the Britons' atmospheric metalcore grows even broader.
81/100: the Irish fuse metal and traditional music with contagious energy.
79/100: Swedish gothic/doom unfolds its majestic melancholy.
80/100: the American southern-sludge veterans rediscover their sticky groove.
80/100: the Briton weaves a dark, cinematic rock of rare beauty.
79/100 across six reviews: Angel Marcloid's project blends metal, vaporwave and prog into a unique kaleidoscope.
81/100: the Belgian trio broaden their progressive, spiritual post-metal further.
80/100: Ken Sorceron's American atmospheric black metal continues its evolution.
83/100: the death-metal supergroup (ex-Pestilence, Asphyx) hits hard on its debut.
80/100: a melodic, melancholic black metal that wins over critics.
Eight albums, twenty years of service, and one of the warmest receptions of the summer: 79/100 for Give Me Dirt, the best…
83/100: the Mexican sisters' trio confirm their powerful, melodic hard rock.